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Law firms across the country have released their trainee retention figures for September 2012.
Several firms have revealed how many of their Spring 2014 qualifiers will be staying on as newly qualified solicitors.
Global law firms Ropes & Gray and Sidley Austin have retained 100% of their trainees.
Trainee and newly qualified solicitors think that firms should do more to provide training and support on stress at work, a survey by the Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) has revealed.
London law firm Mishcon de Reya has launched a programme to offer free legal advice and mentoring to early-stage tech businesses.
Stronger Together is a network designed to “promote racial diversity, inclusion and equality” in Leeds’ professional services sector, while identifying ways to create a more diverse and inclusive sector in the city.
An event aimed at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, with the tag line "Now you're out, let us help you get in", is being held on 4 December 2012.
The outstanding pro bono and volunteering achievements of individual lawyers, law firms, charities and advice clinics were celebrated last week at the LawWorks Annual Pro Bono Awards.
Barbara Mills KC has been elected as vice chair of the Bar Council 2024.
The first legal apprenticeships in Wales have begun through Admiral Law and New Law.
Increasingly, there is a movement among law firms to concentrate on first-year students and provide them with the opportunity to learn more about their organisations.
BPP University Law School’s first ever Advocate of the Year contest has been won by a law student from the University of Bristol.
The vital contributions of paralegals are finally to be celebrated with the first National Paralegal Day, it has been announced.
More than three quarters of candidates who took the SQE2 in April passed.
Norwich-based firm Leathes Prior is planning the first football-related alternative business structure (ABS).
The first group legal aid trainees to have been sponsored through their training contracts by the Legal Education Foundation’s Justice First Fellowship have qualified as solicitors.
For the first time, an openly gay judge has been appointed to the most senior civil judicial position in England and Wales.
The alternative 'equivalent means' route to qualifying as a solicitor has been successfully completed for the first time by Robert Houchill, who had been working as a senior paralegal in the immigration team at Bates Wells Braithwaite and is now a solicitor in the same team.
The Law Society of England and Wales has confirmed that a regional solicitor admission ceremony will take place in Leeds on Monday 11 September 2023.
The booking window for November’s Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE), SQE1, will close at 5:00pm on Monday 27 September.
